Pinball, 1973 Once Again Available in English

Reporting from the Tokyo desk of CNNGo, W. David Marx informs us that the English translation of MURAKAMI Haruki's second novel, Pinball, 1973, is back in print. This translation, produced for those learning English rather than a natively speaking audience, has never been available outside of Japan. On top of that, the publisher discontinued printing the book in the mid 1990s, and so tracking down a copy of the novel has been not unlike locating a certain three-flipper Spaceship.